Jason L. Davis

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Jason L. Davis, US State Department, was a national security affairs fellow for 2006–2007 at the Hoover Institution.

From 2003 to 2006, Jason Davis served as principal officer at the US Consulate General in Dubai, U.A.E., a growing and dynamic post with over 100 employees from seven US government departments and agencies. Davis entered the Foreign Service in 1990, and has served in political sections at US Embassies in Tel Aviv (1990-1992), Cairo (1993-1995), and Beirut (1997-1998). From 1999-2002 he was Political Section Chief at the US Consulate General in Jerusalem. In addition to his overseas assignments, Davis has served in two positions at the Department of State in Washington, DC; first as staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (1995-1996), and then as political/military officer in the Office of Egyptian and North African Affairs (1998-1999). He also spent a year in the Sinai Peninsula, where he was a civilian observer with the Multinational Force and Observers (1996-1997). Davis was the recipient of the 2002 State Department Linguist of the Year Award. Following completion of his service in Jerusalem (1999-2002) he received the State Department's Superior Honor Award. His foreign languages are Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi. Davis is from Soldotna, Alaska (located on the Kenai Peninsula), where he graduated from Cook Inlet Academy in 1980. He received a BS in Biology from Biola University in La Mirada, California in 1984. His research at Hoover will focus on political Islam and democratization in the Middle East.